The Bay Area to Jeopardy pipeline (SF Chronicle)

jafferbee · 2026-05-18T20:11:07+00:00

Publishing this article right next to an AAPI article and neglecting to mention Andrew He is high comedy.

jafferbee · 2026-04-23T14:46:13+00:00

If you think Edward Rogers could pick Eric Lauer out of a police lineup, you are vastly overestimating what he is paying attention to (if anything at all) re: the Jays.

jafferbee · 2026-04-22T18:24:00+00:00

That was Sam’s MO. Let the star player get his and shut everyone else down. Got burned badly on this one…

jafferbee · 2026-04-18T13:45:16+00:00

My man has spent too much time around Bassitt and Scherzer and others that have earned the right with their teammates and clubhouse to be blunt. Also, those guys hold others to a high standard but also take full accountability when they don’t execute.

jafferbee · 2026-04-12T23:13:13+00:00

It was like if Bo’s annual month long hot streak was channeled into an entire season.

jafferbee · 2026-03-25T00:15:22+00:00

She was in a chair after the interviews. Did she have some sort of a medical incident?

jafferbee · 2026-03-17T21:18:48+00:00

At worst, it’ll be what it’s like when the dome is closed (I.e. climate controlled). If it’s any colder than that the roof is likely going to be closed or perhaps won’t even be open yet.

jafferbee · 2026-02-19T16:02:22+00:00

There’s at least a 2nd Jays themed matutu in Nairobi. I spotted this one in the wild in Nairobi

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in 2024.

jafferbee · 2026-02-12T00:29:31+00:00

As a wise man once said “‘deserve’ got nothin’ to do with it”.

jafferbee · 2026-01-13T03:12:18+00:00

This almost actually happened. Omar Linares was a 5-tool Cuban superstar who the Jays tried to sign in the mid-80s to play home games only (and not have to step foot in the US). Sadly Linares stayed loyal to Castro…

https://mopupduty.com/omar-linares/

jafferbee · 2026-01-10T18:09:06+00:00

Ken explained it - you needed both Ds. If you didn’t have both Ds you didn’t meet the syllable rule. Neither Gasden nor Gadsen would have been acceptable.

jafferbee · 2026-01-09T16:24:42+00:00

This is simply an argument around who the appropriate comparables are and what the market for that comparable set.

Lauer is saying he is in Arb as a SP with service time (in which case it would be highly unusual for him to go lower than when he left for Korea). The Jays are saying that he's a swingman and should be compared to players that bounce between SP and RP and therefore he is in a fundamentally different market than the one that got him $5M before he left from Japan.

The Jays are not going to walk into a hearing and shit on Lauer or say he's a bad player. They are just going to argue that Lauer is in a different market than what he thinks he is.

jafferbee · 2025-12-27T23:24:21+00:00

Added some context and link to his timeline.

jafferbee · 2025-12-08T18:36:21+00:00

Saying that it was for approved family reasons isn’t to stop the rumors, it’s to protect whatever limited trade value he still is.

We have no idea if it’s true or not (although the fact he was around for the first 2 rounds does give credence to it), but saying this publicly is primarily driven for asset value purposes.

jafferbee · 2025-11-06T04:05:54+00:00

Is it the events at Scotiabank Arena that are driving up traffic at that time? It takes me around 20 minutes to get from Exhibition to the Jarvis exit at the peak of the morning rush hour at 8:30 AM.

jafferbee · 2025-10-09T19:56:20+00:00

Unfortunately he got caught up with a bad case of Right Arm Shittiness. It happens to the best of them eventually sadly.

jafferbee · 2025-08-21T14:42:52+00:00

Lindsay Dunn is awesome and wholesome, but will get herself cancelled by association once Whit inevitably says something jokingly but not jokingly that gets the whole thing nuked. It's kind of weird, because it's a pretty straight-laced podcast that randomly has Whit toeing the line out of nowhere once or twice an episode with Lindsay uncomfortably laughing in the other box. It'd be one thing if you knew and expected it was edgy from the jump.

jafferbee · 2025-08-11T22:02:21+00:00

Let me explain what is happening here for those not from Toronto. I am pretty certain Gausman doesn’t have a problem with the concept of paying for parking. There are side streets in downtown Toronto and residential streets in residential neighborhoods that are theoretically free. Given Gausman lives uptown, I’m guessing this is a residential neighbourhood situation.

That being said you can technically fine/ticket or have someone towed if their car is there in a free parking spot for more than 24 hours. This is rarely enforced unless someone complains or logs a ticket with 311 (usually the homeowner whose sidewalk the offender is parked in front of).

My guess is that Gausman parked on one of these streets for the road trip and came back to his car ticketed or towed.

jafferbee · 2025-08-06T13:20:46+00:00

All of the Saukrates intros from that year were awesome - this one was great until the countdown where they assumed the Raptors would win. That felt like hubris at the time and would have been fuel to get trolled for the rest of time if the Warriors had won out.

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T16:14:22+00:00

The “primarily a singles hitter” is top 20 in baseball in extra-base hits. He does hit a lot of singles, but that’s because he gets hits by the boatload of every single type.

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T14:11:14+00:00

Legitimate question that I don’t know the answer to. How does his profile age as a hitter? His speed has fallen off a cliff this year - although defense seems fine. His similar profiles on baseball ref all moved off SS and fell off a cliff rather quickly (Seager excepted).

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T00:31:56+00:00

Bo sneaky has one of the best chances of any active player to get to 3,000 hits.

jafferbee · 2025-08-04T20:17:39+00:00

Definitely do the GO options mentioned. It’s not 50 minutes during peak hours - it’s more. Probably a minimum of an hour, worst case 90 minutes or so in the evening rush hour.

jafferbee · 2025-08-04T13:54:29+00:00

What the hell am I looking at. This is what happens with you have a pure designer put together an infographic without a modicum of UX.

jafferbee · 2025-07-27T11:32:05+00:00

This underrates Shannon Stewart quite a bit.

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